Playboy, Volume 11, Number 12, December 1964

A negative review by an unstated author of William S. Burroughs’ Nova Express is at pages 50-51, in the book reviews within the "Playboy After Hours" section.

Published in Chicago, Illinois, US by Playboy / HMH Publishing Co. in December of 1964.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Maynard & Miles
• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 19641200PLAY.11.12

Selected Contents:

• unstated: "Playbill" (introduction)
• letters
• unstated: "Playboy After Hours" (news and reviews, including a review of Nova Express)
• unstated: "The Playboy Advisor" (advice)
• Patrick Chase: "Playboy's International Datebook" (travel)
• unstated: "The Playboy Forum" (advice/letters)
• Hugh M. Hefner: "The Playboy Philosophy" (editorial)
• Hugh M. Hefner, Father Norman J. O'Connor, Rev. Richard E. Gary, Rabbi Marc H. Tannenbaum, and Murray Bennett: "The Playboy Philosophy" (interview)
• Ian Fleming: "Playboy Interview: Ian Fleming" (interview)
• unstated: "Gifting the Girls" (shopping)
• Irwin Shaw: "Once, in Aleppo" (prose)
• Chwast: illustrations
• Sneyd: comic
• Thomas Mario: "The Catered Christmas Affair" (food)
• James Baldwin: "Words of a Native Son" (essay)
• Renaud: collage
• William Iversen: "The Christmas Carol Caper" (comedy)
• assorted photoseries
• R. Taylor: comic
• Joseph Wechsberg: "The French Myth" (essay)
• Lawrence Durrell: "Sauve qui peut" (prose)
• Edward Gorey: illustration
• Vargas: illustration
• Gerald Kersh: "The Hunters" (prose)
• Robert Carola: "Word Play" (satire)
• Dedini: comics
• Don Madden: comic
• Jean Shepherd: "Waldo Grebb and His Electric Baton" (memoir)
• Leroy Neiman: "Man at His Leisure" (essay, art)
• Jonn Dempsey: comics
• Joseph Wood Krutch: "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Unhappiness" (essay)
• Bertrand Russell: "Semantics and the Cold War" (essay)
• Frederic Morton: "Velvet and Apollo" (prose)
• Judith Wax and Larry Siegel: "Playboy's Christmas Cards" (illustrations)
• Dirk Siegel: comic
• Petófi: "The Virgin's Cup" (prose)
• Hugh Nissenson: "The Mission" (prose)
• Sokol: comic
• Phil Hahn: comics
• Lindensmith: comic
• Marty Murphy: comic
• Temes: comic
• Ray Russell: "Macbeth the Knife" (satire)
• Arnold Roth: illustrations
• Bernard Wolfe: "The Dot and Dash Bird" (prose)
• Shoemaker: comic
• Brian Savage: comic
• Buck Brown: comic
• Interlandí: comics
• Herb Green: comic
• Jim Beaman: "Pinkie" (painting)
• Jules Feiffer: "Hostileman" (comic)
• A. Erikson: comic
• Al Jaffee: comic
• Gahan Wilson: comic
• F. Folkes: comic
• Smilby: comic
• Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder and Russ Heath: "Little Annie Fanny" (comic)

Publishing Information:

• Editor and Publisher: Hugh M. Hefner
• Associate Publisher and Editorial Director: A. C. Spectorsky
• Art Director: Arthur Paul
• Managing Editor: Jack J. Kessie
• Picture Editor: Vincent T. Tajiri
• et al